This Adam Friedland Show Mamdani interview is fascinating. This isn't my original idea but showing you can hang is critical for a politician in the algorithimic attention era. How he does it here is masterful and so digitally native. And he's doing it on an absurdist comedy interview series.

Rosalia’s Lux is one of those records that on paper I would look at the composite parts and think interesting but not one for my regular rotation pile. But I’ve been completely hooked the past 24 hours and can’t stop listening.

I've not tried lossless streaming audio until Spotify added it to premium finally. Good god. It's like listening to a CD again in terms of audio quality but I feel like I've finally emerged from the cave. Note you need wired headphones or expensive bluetooth ones that support lossless.

Some big news from us today

This would have been a sketch on Brass Eye years ago. But now, here we are. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo7i...

I’m an Eno fan but there’s some excellent poking at the myth here. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I jotted down some quick notes about where things stand post-Kimmel: www.unpopularfront.news/p/notes-on-t...

NEW PODCAST FROM ME👇👇 So excited to bring you Coining It: a 6 part documentary series telling the extraordinary story of the Blackpool bitcoin millionaire, James Parker. It's a fusion of politics and true crime. A tale of tech, morality and justice. It must be heard to believed. Out Sept 30th.

Just had this ad served to me on insta. As someone who went to high school in 90s America where not selling out and alt music was the thing, this would have enraged my fellow teens at the time.

Discover is one of the key traffic lifelines left for publishers in the A.I. summary world. Adding in links to social content in that space is going to complicate that traffic pipeline.

Tried Marjorie’s last night. I will be thinking about the chicken liver rocher and the bavette for a long time to come. Really excellent.

My six year old twins just demanded that I push them on swings at the park because I am their butler. And if I don’t do it they will have me run over by the car, which they paid for. I am doomed.

I normally have a high tolerance for these silly archetype trend pieces. But not this time. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/s...

Terence Stamp as Zod in Superman 2 is one of those performances that just burned itself into my childhood brain. www.lbc.co.uk/article/supe...

My six year old twins have somehow picked up the phrase “if you do X I will haunt your dreams”. They’re surprisingly adept at deploying it.

In case you missed it @newsagents.bsky.social has a brand new website. Since the start of the podcast the aim has always been for it to be a 360 news brand that does video and articles with a podcast at its core. This is another key step in that direction. www.thenewsagents.co.uk

Because I am of a certain vintage, I randomly started thinking about the popularity of party photographers at club nights I used to go to in the late 00s in East London. People would be excited to spot themselves on those websites the day after. A behaviour that I feel wouldn't land today.

Have decided to up my tote game.

when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet

Sharp read by @cwarzel.bsky.social here. + soft brain scroll” is an inspired label for what/how people consume whatever post monoculture bucket they’ve landed in.

A new Pew study offers data to back up what we have suspected for a while now: AI answers are draining all the traffic out of the web www.platformer.news/google-ai-ov...

Ozzy is one of like 3 people in Decline of Western Civilization Part 2 that comes off as a decent human being and I always love the scene where Penelope Spheeris interviews him making breakfast while he explains the ups and downs of the business.

We’re through the looking glass now

COMING SOON- exclusive sit down for @TheNewsAgents with Defence Secretary @JohnHealey_MP, on why he dropped the super-injunction, on the catastrophic data breach, Parliament being kept in the dark and 100,000 Afghans being put in danger by HMG. Stand by in your feeds.

This old Onion piece from the 90s is funny but also incredibly on point with its cultural prescience. cc @bencollins.bsky.social

Defence Secretary John Healey addressing Parliament about this story RIGHT NOW "This superinjunction is...unprecedented" Parliament has been denied its right to scrutinise the leak, the up to £7bn spent and policy decisions for two years.

We have a very big story from @lewisgoodall.com today that we couldn't publish for two years because of a super injunction. Video version below.

SUNDAY WITH LEWIS GOODALL FROM 10 @lbc.co.uk Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander Shadow Home Sec Chris Philip Wales First Minister Eluned Morgan Former Israeli Ambassador to US Michael Oren Deputy BMA Chair Emma Runswick Ian Byrne on Hillsborough law Join us!

@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com I loved this. open.substack.com/pub/youngvul...

Phenomenal news story this and I love how the Mail seems quite supportive of it.

Solid column from @chaykak.bsky.social about politics being posting now.

Zarah Sultana MP resigns from Labour to lead new party with Jeremy Corbyn www.lbc.co.uk/politics/uk-...

Turns out the floor at Waterloo Station likes to store the heat its accumulated over the day and blast it back at you while you wait for your train. Like standing inside a roaring kiln but with a Pret and WHS Smith.

Don’t judge me for my love of truffles, lobster and hot dogs.

"Google CEO Sundar Pichai was also asked about writer compensation at the DealBook Summit. He suggested that a market solution would emerge, possibly one that wouldn’t involve publishers in the long run." www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

A lot of reports saying this band is 100% A.I. And, for many reasons, you can see and hear why. open.spotify.com/artist/2GRty...

I have seen 78 of these. There are excellent films on this list but it’s quite safe. A real lack of horror. I don’t think you can rank Little Miss Sunshine above a Past Lives or Everything Everywhere. And there are a lot of notable omissions.

My full interview here with Eylon Levy on today's momentous events. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rn7...

SUNDAY WITH LEWIS GOODALL FROM 10 on LBC Biz Secretary Jonathan Reynolds Shadow Foreign Sec Priti Patel Lib Dem Deputy Leader Daisy Cooper Former US Defense Secretary Jim Townsend Former Israeli govt spokerson Eylon Levy Mother of the House Diane Abbott Analysis Aggie Chambre/Mark Urban

Interesting. I think a great re-bundling is on the horizon.

We have new Agents. Also, very proud of my video team who ran with my instructions to make pod trailers with a more cinematic feel.

"I wish it was a different response." Was Kemi Badenoch’s "we won" email after Starmer agreed to a grooming gangs inquiry in good taste? @maitlis.bsky.social and @lewisgoodall.com ask Baroness Casey.

The biggest change in reproductive rights in Britain in half a century has just passed the Commons. MPs have voted 379-137 to decriminalise abortion, preventing women from being prosecuted for terminating a pregnancy after 24 weeks.

How in the world did I get a fever and a nasty head cold in June?

My Father’s Day gifts this year capture my twin passions of top-notch criticism and new chocolate combinations. Well done family.

I get owned here like 2-3 times a day and still have fun. Skill issue.

Was in Paris recently and stumbled across this used bookshop/coffee shop. Few things set my pulse racing more than big bookshelves.

“If they’d explained everything about Brexit, I’d probably have voted Remain!” @lewisgoodall.com visits The Talbot in Blackpool, the UK’s first Reform pub, where the owner regrets Brexit - but stops short of blaming one of the key figures who sold it to him: Nigel Farage.

Excellent report from Lewis and the team.

We love to imagine the present, as it is now, just with the addition of some revolutionary new technology. Laughable to think that any of the businesses or social infrastructure required to do what this tweet imagines would still exist in a world with AI agents complex enough to pull this off.